Rover 100 Kit Car?

Bogbrush82 · 7th May 2019, 18:51

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/rover-114....c100008.m2219

Not sure what to think of it TBH. Some work gone into it though.

trikey · 7th May 2019, 19:47

I think that would be good fun on the B roads in the Summer.

marinabrian · 7th May 2019, 20:32

Hmm, a nice donor 1800T fitted to that will make a fun driver

trikey · 7th May 2019, 20:35

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Originally Posted by marinabrian

Hmm, a nice donor 1800T fitted to that will make a fun driver

Imagine that with 200 bhp! it would try and turn itself inside out

ceedy · 7th May 2019, 20:38

A banham x99 type ?

marinabrian · 7th May 2019, 20:47

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Originally Posted by trikey

Imagine that with 200 bhp! it would try and turn itself inside out

Dave Johnson is fitting a tweaked 1800T into a Midas, with a total kerb weight of three bags of Tudor Crisps, that promises to be fun

Brian

trikey · 7th May 2019, 21:10

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Originally Posted by marinabrian

Dave Johnson is fitting a tweaked 1800T into a Midas, with a total kerb weight of three bags of Tudor Crisps, that promises to be fun

Brian

That will be interesting...

Raspberrycai · 7th May 2019, 21:18

It looks like a daihatsu copen body to me with a funny front end.
An already light kei car, with further weight reduction, no doors and over 100HP sounds like a recipe for fun. Whatever it actually is, it's a weird Frankenstein of a car and I think it needs a decent amount of work on styling (The execution appears quite amateur), but it seems fun. Certainly bizzare.

Edit: I've done a bit of looking about, it appears to be a Banham superbug. They go by other names too, such as the X99, and from what I can tell it has no daihatsu parts whatsoever, which is weird considering how much it looks like a copen. Going on google images brings up some atrocities, such as a superbug modelled to look like a TT.

baxlin · 7th May 2019, 21:38

I agree, I think it’s a Paul Banham body kit. From memory, he started with the likes of rear engined Skoda donors to become Porsche Speedsters, and a rebodied XJS, but his most popular was the Metro/100 donor for Audi TT lookalikes, the Banham X99 and X21. (The one in post#1 isn’t actually an X99, but I can’t remember what he labelled it as)

My favourite though was the classic Mini floorpan and underpinning carrying an almost mm perfect Frogeye Sprite body, only let down, IMO, by the Mini's wheels being smaller than the Sprite's 13".

IIRC, the difference between the Banham approach and more typical kit cars was that Banhams, at least until the regs changed, were body conversions, so didn’t need SVA test.

Comfortably Numb · 8th May 2019, 18:32

Did someone steal this off a fairground ride?

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baxlin This is my second home Volvo C70 Convertible and JZR 3 wheeler Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tring, Herts Posts: 3,960 Thanks: 124 Thanked 173 Times in 124 Posts	I agree, I think it’s a Paul Banham body kit. From memory, he started with the likes of rear engined Skoda donors to become Porsche Speedsters, and a rebodied XJS, but his most popular was the Metro/100 donor for Audi TT lookalikes, the Banham X99 and X21. (The one in post#1 isn’t actually an X99, but I can’t remember what he labelled it as) My favourite though was the classic Mini floorpan and underpinning carrying an almost mm perfect Frogeye Sprite body, only let down, IMO, by the Mini's wheels being smaller than the Sprite's 13". IIRC, the difference between the Banham approach and more typical kit cars was that Banhams, at least until the regs changed, were body conversions, so didn’t need SVA test. __________________ Only my opinion, obviously, so please don’t shoot me if it doesn’t match yours! Last edited by baxlin; 7th May 2019 at 21:40..

7th May 2019, 18:51	#1
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